A Leadership Vision

Teachers College President

 Dr. Susan Fuhrman is the President of Teachers College, Columbia University, and Chair of the Management Committee of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). She previously served as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, as well as the school's George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education. Dr. Fuhrman received bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and a Ph.D. in political science and education from Columbia University, New York. She has written widely on education policy and finance; among her edited books are The Public Schools (The Institutions of American Democracy Series, with Marvin Lazerson, 2005); Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education (with Richard Elmore, 2004); From the Capitol to the Classroom: Standards-Based Reform in the States (2001); and Rewards and Reform: Creating Educational Incentives that Work (with Jennifer O'Day, 1996). Her many professional involvements include membership on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the National Coalition on Asia and International Studies in the Schools. She is also a former Vice President of the American Educational Research Association, and a non-executive Director of Pearson plc, the international education and publishing company. Her research interests include state policy design, accountability in education, deregulation, intergovernmental relationships, and standards-based reform. She has also conducted research on state education reform, state-local relationships, state differential treatment of districts, federalism in education, incentives and systemic reform, and legislatures and education policy.